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XPost: alt.politics, alt.politics.usa
From: bliss@sfo.com
one who waits wrote:
> In article <78b696F1l8njtU1@mid.individual.net>,
> B Sellers wrote:
>
>> M_P wrote:
>>> On May 28, 8:37 pm, elizabeth wrote:
>>>> On May 28, 3:48 pm, px...@cadence.com (Pete nospam Zakel) wrote:
>>>>> In article
>>>>> <5c171e9a-86bd-4bac-8c66-7b3d97bda...@w40g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
>>>>> elizabeth writes:
>>>>>> I would legalize growing and consuming, but not buying or selling.
>>>>> If you do not legalize buying and selling you will still have a black
>>>>> market.
>>>> WRong. It's not the "black market" that is the problem, it's
>>>> organized crime that is the problem with pot in California.
>>> And when the market is "black" organized crime will step in ... which
>>> is why buying and selling need to be legalized.
>> The money to be made in black markets is exactly why organized
>> crime dominates. Not everyone is in a position to grow cannabis
>> either for themselves or to trade with others due to cramped quarters
>> and the present legal climate that makes even the smallest grow spaces
>> a severe legal liability.
>>
>> Anarchist idealism is all very well but the facts of the matter are
>> beyond the comprehension of the mind snared in self-defeating
>> idealism. We need the organizations working on
>> the behalf of the users of the illegalized substances.
>> Those of us who want to change the present laws which by damaging
>> individuals and families, damages society. Society is poorly
>> served by laws that empower the criminal elements and which
>> led to the corruption of the authorities as the present law
>> does so often with the vast profits available from traffic
>> in illegal substances,
>>
>> later
>> bliss
>
> did we learn anything from "Prohibition" and bath tub gin?????
We the individual people learned but the government has
no capacity to learn being a construction of interest groups.
later
bliss
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